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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7430

12 August 2010
IN THIS ISSUE
Time to stop legal aid tendering process?

Law Society wants compensation for family legal aid firms

12 August 2010
Lehman client money ruling

Appeal court extends protection for investment clients

12 August 2010
In-house fee success

In-house lawyers are celebrating victory in their long-running campaign to reduce the cost of their practising certificate fees

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Summer Budget challenge

The Fawcett Society is seeking a judicial review of the government’s emergency budget for alleged failure to comply with equality laws

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Proposed cuts will be “devastating”

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is considering plans to cut its £9bn budget by £2bn, it emerged this week.

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Sluggish growth

Demand for law firm services in the UK and US was largely flat for the second quarter of 2010 and rate growth was weak according to the latest findings from Hildebrandt Baker Robbins’ Peer Monitor Index (PMI).

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Information barriers

Solicitors’ rules on confidentiality have been amended.

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Self-employed boost

Self-employed workers and their partners are to gain maternity and pension benefits under EU legislation that came into force last week.

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Firm expands London disputes practice with senior partner hire

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team

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NLJ this week: Shareholder secrecy sunk
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
NLJ this week: The expanding remit of national security law
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
NLJ this week: Trauma-informed pro bono
In NLJ this week, Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre marks Pro Bono Week by urging lawyers to recognise the emotional toll of pro bono work
NLJ this week: When leases last hours
Can a lease legally last only days—or even hours? Professor Mark Pawlowski of the University of Greenwich explores the question in this week's NLJ
NLJ this week: EU law trumps sports arbitration
RFC Seraing v FIFA, in which the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) reaffirmed that awards by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) may be reviewed by EU courts on public-policy grounds, is under examination in this week's NLJ by Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law, Zurich
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